Science|Business Database: Coronavirus Funding Opportunities

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As a service to the global R&D community, Science|Business has compiled this database of funding opportunities. Users are encouraged to let us know of funding calls that could be incorporated into the database. Please email all suggestions to [email protected]. The database will be updated daily. For rapid news about COVID-19, see our live blog.

CITRIS Seed funding for transformative technology and policy solutions

Date added: 05 May 2020

Proposals should focus on how information technology can change the way the pandemic is handled. Projects should be able to be rapidly implemented through public and private channels, with large scaling possibilities and technology transfer.

Amount
Up to $50,000 per project
Agency or Funder
CITRIS and the Banatao Institute
Eligibility (if available)

Researchers with Principal Investigator status at UC Berkeley, UC Davis (including UC Davis Health), UC Merced, and UC Santa Cruz.

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

Rapid development, deployment and testing of the National Emergency Telecritical Care Network

Date added: 05 May 2020

Projects should use integrated technologies and clinical workflows to contribute to traditional and non-traditional and temporary healthcare facilities.

Amount
$7M (U.S. dollars)
Agency or Funder
U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)
Eligibility (if available)

Applicants offered support will need to be or become members of the MTEC consortium.

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

Fast-track grant for research on non-animal approaches to investigate mechanisms, medicines, and vaccines for COVID-19

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

The aim of the call is to gather information and stimulate funding of the development of non-animal, human biology-based models to help coordinate and accelerate responses to current and emerging pandemics

Amount
up to $40,000 (U.S. dollars)
Agency or Funder
Johns Hopkins Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing (CAAT)
Eligibility (if available)

Academic group, non-profit, or small or medium enterprise

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

COVID-19 Rapid response proposals for Tufts University reseachers

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

Proposals should generate new knowledge and/or change clinical practice with focus on treatmet and diagnosis.

Amount
$300,000 (U.S. dollars)
Agency or Funder
Tufts University and Tufts Medical Center
Eligibility (if available)

Employees of Tufts University or Tufts Medical Center, but applicants may partner with collaborators at community-based, local non-profit organisations

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

Transatlantic call for new coronavirus treatment proposals

Date added: 05 May 2020

A call for novel therapies, broad-spectrum antivirals, next-generation vaccines that may target new corona strains, multiple corona viruses or more than one type of virus, and strategies for first responders and emergency medical personnel.

Amount
$150.000 (U.S.) guaranteed, with the potential to receive up to $1 million
Agency or Funder
Harrington Discovery Institute
Eligibility (if available)

Project lead must have an MD, PhD or equivalent and based in the U.S., UK or Canada. 

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

CDC launches Coronavirus Response Fellowships

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

Research opportunity on COVID-19 response with emphasis on cross-coordination of federal disaster recovery efforts and public health-specific needs.

Agency or Funder
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Eligibility (if available)

Degree candidates or holders in one of the relevant fields from the U.S. territories and Freely Associated States.

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

Psychological research to support mental health

Date added: 11 May 2020

A call for insights that will help psychologists to work with individuals, families and groups who are struggling to cope.

Amount
Up to 20,000 USD
Agency or Funder
American Psychological Foundation
Eligibility (if available)

Applicants must be be affiliated with a nonprofit charitable, educational or scientific institution, or governmental entity operating exclusively for charitable and educational purposes

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

An open innovation effort to design a rapidly deployable mechanical ventilator

Date added: 05 May 2020

The CoVent-19 Challenge is fostering the innovation of a rapidly deployable, minimum viable mechanical ventilator for patients with COVID-19 related ventilator-dependent lung injury.

Amount
$10,000 (U.S. dollars)
Agency or Funder
CoVent-19 Challenge
Eligibility (if available)

Engineers, innovators, designers

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

The impacts of COVID-19 on health services, access, outcomes and costs.

Date added: 05 May 2020

Proposals should produce new knowledge on the healthcare response to the pandemic, identify challenges and generate data to address the many facets of the evolving pandemic.

Amount
$25.000 (U.S. dollars)
Agency or Funder
UC Davis Center for Healthcare Policy and Research, the Center for Health and Technology, and the Behavioral Health Center of Excellence
Eligibility (if available)

All full-time members of the UC Davis faculty

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

More effective procurement for the COVID-19 emergency

Date added: 29 Apr 2020

Projects will collect and analyze data related to emergency procurement with the objective of improving efficiency, and effectiveness during the pandemic

Amount
$3.000 (U.S. dollars)
Agency or Funder
Open Contracting Partership and Hivos
Eligibility (if available)

Organizations or individuals from any country

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) Program is looking for applications to address informatics solutions

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

The proposals will focus on the use of informatics to advance COVID-19 diagnostics, therapeutics, and vaccines.

Agency or Funder
National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS)
Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

Call for students to join the fight against the spread of COVID-19

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

Open call for students aged 13 to 17 from around the world to form virtual teams to develop technology-based solutions to slow the spread of COVID-19.

Amount
$500 travel scholarship (U.S dollars)
Agency or Funder
The New York Academy of Sciences
Eligibility (if available)

All countries except those subject to U.S. sanctions

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Availability of Administrative Supplements and Revision Supplements on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

Competitive revisions and additional resourcing for a currently funded grant to meet increased costs that are within the scope of the approved project but unforeseen when the new or competing renewal application was awarded.

Amount
Not limited
Agency or Funder
U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) - NHLBI
Date application deadline

Using research to make healthcare more effective

Date added: 05 May 2020

The Donaghue Foundation wants researchers to submit COVID-19 proposals as part of its general call for projects to improve the value of the healthcare provided to patients and communities.

Amount
$400,000 (U.S. dollars) per award
Agency or Funder
Donaghue Foundation
Eligibility (if available)

Investigators at tax-exempt research institutions in the United States.

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

COVID-19's impact on women and domestic violence

Date added: 06 May 2020

Support for early-stage research projects exploring women, victimisation, and domestic violence in the COVID-19 crisis. Research projects that focus on developing and developed nations are welcome.

Amount
$20.000 (USD)
Agency or Funder
The National Bureau of Economic Research
Eligibility (if available)

Applicants must be current affiliates of an academic institution

Date application deadline

Grants for rural tribes and tribal organisations at risk of COVID-19.

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

The funding will assist tribes, tribal organizations, urban Indian health organisations, and health service providers to tribes to prevent, prepare for, and respond to COVID-19.

Amount
$15,000,000 (U.S. dollars)
Agency or Funder
Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration
Eligibility (if available)

Tribes, tribal organisations, urban Indian health organisations, and health service providers to tribes serving rural communities

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

Call for collaboration projects with University of California

Date added: 05 May 2020

Projects should be comprised of multidisciplinary teams, dealing with topics of strategic importance to the University of California or the state of California.

Amount
Not specified
Agency or Funder
University of California
Eligibility (if available)

Proposals require collaboration among at least three UC campuses and should address topics of strategic importance to UC and California

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

COVID-19 related near-market research from the University of Virginia

Date added: 11 May 2020

Funding for practically oriented research on COVID-19 related topics with a commercialisation potential.

Amount
Up to $100K per project
Agency or Funder
The Manning Fund for COVID-19 Research
Eligibility (if available)

Principal investigators from the University of Virginia

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline